Month – August 2015

The rumors are true! A new Staton-House Album is on the horizon. I have word from a source close to the band that they are in the studio (The Village Studios) and the songs are flowing. I’m hearing song titles such as “Pain”, “Ivory”, “City of Lights” “Sarah’s Secret” and “Losing Ground”. The wait is almost […]

We all LOVE the (now legendary) Joy Motel album cover, right? Here’s the skinny on how it came to be… – Finger While the songs on Motel had a sometimes ethereal bent, with hidden meanings, like “Disciple of Osiris,” the overall mood was captured by the title and evocative cover photo of the album. The Joy […]

I previously mentioned the unpublished book DISCIPLES OF OSIRIS. The band invited writer Charles R. Peer into the earliest songwriting sessions for Joy Motel and even lived with the band during that time. But things went sour….fast. I asked Chris about this awhile ago (through email exchanges). CH: “We just didn’t anticipate that Charles, because […]